Why crypto’s infrastructure hasn’t caught up with its ideals

Why crypto’s infrastructure hasn’t caught up with its ideals

Distributed cloud projects aim to reduce blockchain’s heavy dependence on centralized providers like AWS. Periodic service disruptions and capacity strain on centralized cloud infrastructure have created an opening for companies building distributed networks. Supporters of the distributed approach argue that spreading workloads across several smaller nodes reduces concentration risk. They say the model could be…

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Google Pixel update adds battery-saving maps mode, AI photo remixing, and smarter notifications

Google Pixel update adds battery-saving maps mode, AI photo remixing, and smarter notifications

Google announced its November software update for Pixel phones, called Pixel Drop — a quarterly feature release that brings new capabilities to existing devices — with features including notification summaries, a power-saving mode for the Maps app, prompt-based edits for Photos, and Gemini Nano-powered photo edits in Messages. Apple introduced notification summaries with its Apple…

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Crypto sleeps while AI builds the richest data set monopolies

Crypto sleeps while AI builds the richest data set monopolies

Crypto debates DeFi forks while AI companies lock trillions of tokens into proprietary training runs, building permanent data set monopolies. The window closes fast. Opinion by: Ram Kumar, core contributor at OpenLedger The crypto industry spent a decade evangelizing decentralization. At the same time, AI companies assembled the most valuable monopolies since Standard Oil, and…

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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is pushing UK regulator to unbundle Google’s search and AI crawlers

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is pushing UK regulator to unbundle Google’s search and AI crawlers

After earlier this year launching a marketplace that allows websites to charge AI bots for scraping their content, web infrastructure provider Cloudflare is pushing for increased regulation in the AI sector. The company’s chief executive Matthew Prince says he’s in London to speak with the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), where he’s proposing stricter…

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Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with government spyware 

Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with government spyware 

Earlier this year, a developer was shocked by a message that appeared on his personal phone: “Apple detected a targeted mercenary spyware attack against your iPhone.”   “I was panicking,” Jay Gibson, who asked that we don’t use his real name over fears of retaliation, told TechCrunch.   Gibson, who until recently built surveillance technologies for Western…

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Google Chrome silences those pesky notifications

Google Chrome silences those pesky notifications

Google’s Chrome web browser is about to become much less noisy. On Friday, the technology giant announced a new feature that will automatically disable browser notifications for the websites you haven’t interacted with recently, disrupting their ability to pop up alerts and updates that you may no longer be interested in. The feature will launch…

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